BANKI KIVEll SECTIONS. 



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"B. - Bavdkars. 



flO. Conl-seam exposed 2". 

 9. Shaly sandstone 1' 2'. 

 8. Coal-seam 1' 2". 

 7. Snndstono 8' 2". 



16 f 7.,- 



( Coal-seam 8 6 . 



Fault. 

 Fault. 



1 19. Thick -bedded sandstone. 



I 1 8. Thin band of clay iron ore 6". 



j 17. Grey sliales, nearly horizontal. 



] 16. Coal-seam, partly hidden undor water. 



115. Finegrained grey sandstone, micaceous; strike east-west, dip 



slightly south, locally disturbed, about 5' thickness. 

 . 14. Shales. 



: 13. Sandstone, strike east-west, dip 8° south, but rolling. 

 { 12. Sbales. 



I 11. Ferruginous sandstone. 



[ 8, 9, 10. Coal-seam and shales 1', south-east to north-west, dip 10° south- 

 j west. 



6, 7. Ferruginous sandstone and shales. 



5. Coal-bed 1'. 

 l- 1 to 4. Ferruginous sandstone, showing a very corroded surface ; much 

 hidden by alluvium. 



A. — Talohirs. 



Of typical character ; boulder bed with silty sandstones and shales of 



conchoidal fracture, dip 50" south-west. 

 Resting on metamorphic schists. 



Descendiug from the village Panri, which stands on mica schist, to the 

 Banki nullah by the road to Pipraul^ we find Talchir boulder bed and 

 shales resting- on the metamorphics in the river, raised to 50° probably by 

 lateral pressure, this boundary being- near the great subsiding fault, 

 which farther to the west cuts off the coal-field on the north. 



The section through the Barakars is completely analogous to the 

 sections already described in the Bithiau nullah. The greatest sub- 

 sidence in the Tatapani portion of the field having taken place towards the 



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